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Originally Posted by eriqjaffe
dola,
Last year, the White Sox clinched the A.L. Central with 3 games left - and they had a 3-game lead over Cleveland. Even if Cleveland had swept the Sox over the last 3 games (which they didn't, so it's irrelevant) and the teams had finished up with identical records, the Sox would still have been the Central Division champs, and the Indians or Red Sox would have been the wild card.
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There was some pretty good potential for some crazy tie-breaker situations last year. If Cleveland could have won 2 of 3 from Chicago in that last series, there would have been 3 teams (New York, Boston and Cleveland) with 95 wins. So, New York & Boston would have had a one game playoff for the East (the head-to-head and other tiebreakers wouldn't be valid because both teams would not be guaranteed playoff spots).
Then the loser of the Boston/New York matchup would have had to play Cleveland for the Wild Card spot. I was definitely rooting for this to happen.